The third judge has now denied the Trump administration’s request to release Epstein’s grand jury documents, and while it’s being spun as a setback, the truth is the administration knew this was coming all along. Grand jury materials are sealed by design, and no court was going to break decades of precedent. The request was never about actually getting those documents—it was about making a move that was guaranteed to fail, so the administration could later point to the denial as proof that the system had tied their hands. In other words, the loss was baked into the strategy from the start.
Now the denial has become the centerpiece of a carefully scripted narrative. The administration and its allies are out in force, claiming they sought transparency only to be blocked by the courts, painting themselves as victims of a cover-up. But the truth is, if they truly wanted the Epstein files exposed, there were other levers of power they could have pulled. Instead, they opted for a performative stunt designed to fail, knowing the denial would hand them a scapegoat. It’s political theater masquerading as justice, and while the spin benefits them, the victims remain forgotten and the truth stays buried.
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Judge declines to unseal grand jury material in Jeffrey Epstein case - CBS News
Now the denial has become the centerpiece of a carefully scripted narrative. The administration and its allies are out in force, claiming they sought transparency only to be blocked by the courts, painting themselves as victims of a cover-up. But the truth is, if they truly wanted the Epstein files exposed, there were other levers of power they could have pulled. Instead, they opted for a performative stunt designed to fail, knowing the denial would hand them a scapegoat. It’s political theater masquerading as justice, and while the spin benefits them, the victims remain forgotten and the truth stays buried.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
source:
Judge declines to unseal grand jury material in Jeffrey Epstein case - CBS News
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, let's not
get ourselves. What we just witnessed was not some bold
attempt by the Trump administration to unlock the secrets of
the Epstein grand Jury. This was political theater dressed up
as reform. For the third time, a judge has slammed
(00:23):
the door shut on their request, and yet you almost
get the sense that the denial was the whole point.
Everyone in that orbit knows full well how grand jury
law works. Those documents are sealed by design, protected by
rules that go back over a century. The judges weren't
going to break precedent for Trump or anyone else, and
(00:43):
that's exactly why the administration leaned into it. They were
never going to get those files, but they wanted to
say that they tried, because here's the thing, Well, you
know the outcome in advance. You control the narrative either way.
The administration knew that the courts would deny them, and
with that they could step back and say, see, we're
the victims of a cover up. We want a transparency,
(01:05):
but the establishment shut us down. That was the strategy
from day one, and now, predictably, the chorus of allies
is singing the same tune. TV appearances, social media ants,
op eds in sympathetic outlets, all hammering the point that
the system has tied their hands. It's not about truth,
it's about building already made excuse. And what makes it
(01:27):
worse is how deliberate the playbook is. By engineering a
loss they knew they'd take, the administration gives itself political insulation.
They can throw up their hands and declare themselves powerless
while pretending to have been the champions of disclosure, and
the public is supposed to swallow it whole, that their
effort was genuine, that their frustration is authentic, and that
(01:48):
the fall lies not with them but with the courts,
the deep state, the nameless machine that always seems to
be working against them. It's convenience scapegoating, and it's being
rolled out like a campaign slogan. But let's be blunt.
If they really wanted the Epstein truth to come out,
there were other ways to push. Other levers of power
they could have pulled. They could have the classified records,
(02:09):
compelled cooperation, leaned on agencies with a full force of
executive authority. They didn't. Instead, they staged a move they
knew would collapse under its own weight, and then turned
around and weaponized the denial as proof of the very
corruption they claim to be fighting. It's a shell game,
a sleight of hand, designed not to deliver justice, but
(02:30):
to protect themselves from having to do anything meaningful in
the first place. And now we're living in the aftermath
of that performance. Three denials later, the administration and its
allies are parading around, not embarrassed by the losses, but
energized by them. They have spun failure into ammunition, weakness
into a talking point, and in that spin cycle, the
(02:52):
survivors are forgotten once again, the evidence stays hidden, and
the truth slips further out of reach. This was never
about unlocking Epstein's secrets. This was about creating a shield
already made excuse for an action and laying the blame
anywhere but where it belongs. And the worst part, that's
the narrative being pumped right now on que exactly as
(03:15):
it was scripted. Today's article is from CBS News and
the headline judge declines to unseal grand jury materials in
the Jeffrey Epstein case. This article was authored by Stephen Beckel,
Jacob Rosen, and Caitlin Watson. A federal judge in New
York on Wednesday declined the Justice Department's request to unseal
(03:38):
grand jury material in the case of late sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein, saying that prosecutors had failed to demonstrate that
special circumstances warranted the disclosure. And like I just said
in the opening there all by design. They knew this
wasn't going to happen. And I'm certainly not some legal mind, right,
And I told you from the jump that this was
(03:59):
the whole entire point. Judge Richard Berman of the US
District Court for the Southern District of New York issued
is ruling in a fourteen page decision denying the government's
motion to unseal the documents. And of course we had
to hear right after this that the judge isn't on
the cover up. That Judge Berman is the one who
is to blame here, not the Department of Justice. You
(04:21):
want to talk about a master class in gaslighting, and
they knew that people would suck it up. You have
people out there that are willing to buy anything that's
being pitched by the administration. It's no different than the
last administration who tried to gaslight you about Joe Biden's
mental acuity. We all knew that dude was cooked, but no,
(04:41):
they had to run their narrative, had to run their bullshit.
And it's the same thing that's happening right now with
this whole entire grand jury document situation. The DOJ knows
just how hard it is to get grand jury documents,
and that's why they asked for them. Notice they didn't
say anything about the NPA right or anything else they
have in their possession. Berman wrote that the grand jury
(05:03):
material in question includes the testimony of just a single witness,
an FBI agent who had no direct knowledge of the
facts of the case and whose testimony was mostly hearsay.
The documents the government was seeking to unseal included roughly
seventy pages of transcripts of the agent's two presentations to
the grand jury, a PowerPoint exhibit, and a call log.
(05:25):
Berman noted that the Justice Department files on Epstein Dwarf,
those stemming from the grand jury proceeding before grand jury's
are typically kept secret, a significant and compelling reason to
reject The government's position in this litigation is that the
government has already undertaken a comprehensive investigation into Epstein's case
and not surprisingly, has assembled the trove of Epstein documents, interviews,
(05:50):
and exhibits, and the government committed that it would share
its Epstein investigation materials with the public. Berman wrote, but
somehow it's the judge's fault. Somehow, Now it's Judge Berman's
fault that the Trump administration doesn't want to be transparent.
You see, the Trump administration knew that people would bite
and that this narrative would gain some traction with their base.
(06:12):
But I don't think it's their base that they have
to worry about at this point. I think it's all
those independents that they folded into their coalition to help
them win the White House. Those are the people they
need to worry about. And I have bad news for you.
If Alex Jones is on the fence about you, you
know you're in big trouble. The government's the logical party
to make comprehensive disclosure to the public of the Epstein files.
(06:36):
By comparison, the instant grand jury motion appears to be
a diversion from the breadth and scope of the Epstein
files in the government's possession, Berman wrote, quoting a decision
by another New York judge who denied the government's move
to one sealed material in the case of Glenn Maxwell,
Epstein's co conspirator, who is serving a twenty year sentence
on sex trafficking charges. The information contained in the Epstein
(07:00):
grand jury transcripts Pels in comparison to the Epstein investigation
information and materials in the hands of the Department of Justice,
he concluded, Well, yeah, no shit. Grand jury documentation is
sparse at best. That's what they bring to get the indictment.
And they don't even bring all the information they have.
They just bring enough. So if you think the grand
(07:22):
jury documents tell the whole story, you have no idea
what you're talking about. And anybody trying to tell you
that these grand jury documents are some kind of key
to what's going on here, they're lying to you. The
information contained in the Epstein Grand Jury transcripts Pels in
comparison to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the
hands of the Department of Justice, he concluded. Berman wrote
(07:45):
that the grand jury material is merely a hearsay snippet
of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged conduct. He cited possible threats to
victim safety and privacy as one of the factors that
weighed in favor of not releasing the documents. The Justice
Department declined to comment on Burman's ruling. Of course they did.
They don't need to comment. They'll have all of their
(08:07):
allies at social media and talk about how this decision
is nothing more than part of the cover up, and
then they'll point to this and say, see, the administration
wants transparency, but it's the courts and everybody else who
is standing in the way. And look, there's certainly some
truth to the courts having their own issues when it
comes to Jeffrey Epstein. I'm talking specifically about the grand
(08:29):
jury documents. Anybody who knows anything new that these things
weren't going to be released. The family of Virginia Roberts,
one of Epstein's most well known accusers who died by
suicide earlier this year, said in a statement, we applaud
Judge Richard Berman's decision not to release the grand jury
testimony in the Glenn Maxwell case. We wholeheartedly agree with
(08:50):
his assessment that the Department of Justice is creating a
diversion with its actions regarding the grand jury motion, which
distracts from the vasqu go of the Epstein files in
the government's possession. Well, yeah, that's exactly what it comes
down to. And that's exactly what we've been saying from
the jump. And when I say we, not just me,
I'm talking about anybody with a brain in their head.
(09:13):
You don't have to be fucking Johnny Cochran to realize
that the fix is in. We recognize the critical importance
of protecting survivors. It's essential that we redact any information
that could jeopardize their safety or a privacy. Their well
being must always be our priority, the family said. At
the same time, we demand accountability for all individuals implicated
(09:35):
in these heinous acts. Those responsible must be held to
the fullest extent of the law. We will not accept
anything less than justice for Virginia and all the survivors.
In July, the Justice Department asked judges overseeing the Maxwell
and Epstein cases to release the grand jury material that
formed the basis for the federal charges against them, a
(09:56):
move that came amid uproar over the Department's review of
the soul called Epstein files and decision not to release
additional documents in the government's possession. You know, after they
told us they were going to, after they gave us
the whole rundown about how transparent they're going to be,
We're going to have day one releases the whole thing,
only for them to spit directly on our face. But
(10:18):
go ahead, go off about the judges and about how
the fix is in. Epstein was investigated by federal authorities
in Florida in the two thousands, a probe that ended
in a non prosecution agreement and a guilty plea on
state prostitution charges. He was arrested again on federal sex
trafficking charges in twenty nineteen and died in a Manhattan
(10:39):
jail weeks later. Several investigations determined he died by suicide. Well,
considering the track record when it comes to truth and
Jeffrey Epstein and what's happened here, does anyone believe that narrative?
There has been increasing pressure on the Trump administration from
Democrats and many Republicans to disclose more information about the
(11:00):
Epstein case. The Justice Department issued findings of a review
of the Epstein investigation in July, saying it had found
no evidence of a client list or indication that Epstein
blackmailed prominent figures, an announcement that spurred more questions from skeptics. Well, yeah,
with everything that we know, how can you get up
(11:22):
there with a straight face and try and pitch that
bullshit to us? I mean, that is a bold move.
That's like Baghdad Bob standing on that building and telling
the Iraqis that there was no Americans in Baghdad. Republicans
in Congress have pushed for more transparency since the Justice
Department's review. The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to
(11:44):
the Department for documents related to Epstein earlier this month.
The committee said Tuesday that it expects to receive documents
later this week and intends to begin releasing them pending
a review to redact victim's information. Shouldn't that victim's information
be redacted already by the time they get it, is
that what the FBI supposedly was doing. So what they
mean by review is to make sure that none of
(12:06):
their friends are involved, right, and then they'll release it
to us. You want transparency, you want us to believe you,
you want us to believe in what's going on. Here's
an idea. How about you have these meetings, these depositions
in public. That way we can see for ourselves what
everybody has to say, what everybody looks like while they're
(12:26):
saying it, and the kind of questions that are being
asked from the members of the committee. But no, we
can't even have that. So once again comes down to
trust us. Bro And I don't know about you, but
the days of trusting the institutions in this country, for
me anyway, are long over, and considering the way things
(12:46):
are going, I doubt that trust is ever coming back.
All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one.
All of the information that goes with this episode can
be found in the description box.
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, let's not
get ourselves. What we just witnessed was not some bold
attempt by the Trump administration to unlock the secrets of
the Epstein grand Jury. This was political theater dressed up
as reform. For the third time, a judge has slammed
(00:23):
the door shut on their request, and yet you almost
get the sense that the denial was the whole point.
Everyone in that orbit knows full well how grand jury
law works. Those documents are sealed by design, protected by
rules that go back over a century. The judges weren't
going to break precedent for Trump or anyone else, and
(00:43):
that's exactly why the administration leaned into it. They were
never going to get those files, but they wanted to
say that they tried, because here's the thing, Well, you
know the outcome in advance. You control the narrative either way.
The administration knew that the courts would deny them, and
with that they could step back and say, see, we're
the victims of a cover up. We want a transparency,
(01:05):
but the establishment shut us down. That was the strategy
from day one, and now, predictably, the chorus of allies
is singing the same tune. TV appearances, social media ants,
op eds in sympathetic outlets, all hammering the point that
the system has tied their hands. It's not about truth,
it's about building already made excuse. And what makes it
(01:27):
worse is how deliberate the playbook is. By engineering a
loss they knew they'd take, the administration gives itself political insulation.
They can throw up their hands and declare themselves powerless
while pretending to have been the champions of disclosure, and
the public is supposed to swallow it whole, that their
effort was genuine, that their frustration is authentic, and that
(01:48):
the fall lies not with them but with the courts,
the deep state, the nameless machine that always seems to
be working against them. It's convenience scapegoating, and it's being
rolled out like a campaign slogan. But let's be blunt.
If they really wanted the Epstein truth to come out,
there were other ways to push. Other levers of power
they could have pulled. They could have the classified records,
(02:09):
compelled cooperation, leaned on agencies with a full force of
executive authority. They didn't. Instead, they staged a move they
knew would collapse under its own weight, and then turned
around and weaponized the denial as proof of the very
corruption they claim to be fighting. It's a shell game,
a sleight of hand, designed not to deliver justice, but
(02:30):
to protect themselves from having to do anything meaningful in
the first place. And now we're living in the aftermath
of that performance. Three denials later, the administration and its
allies are parading around, not embarrassed by the losses, but
energized by them. They have spun failure into ammunition, weakness
into a talking point, and in that spin cycle, the
(02:52):
survivors are forgotten once again, the evidence stays hidden, and
the truth slips further out of reach. This was never
about unlocking Epstein's secrets. This was about creating a shield
already made excuse for an action and laying the blame
anywhere but where it belongs. And the worst part, that's
the narrative being pumped right now on que exactly as
(03:15):
it was scripted. Today's article is from CBS News and
the headline judge declines to unseal grand jury materials in
the Jeffrey Epstein case. This article was authored by Stephen Beckel,
Jacob Rosen, and Caitlin Watson. A federal judge in New
York on Wednesday declined the Justice Department's request to unseal
(03:38):
grand jury material in the case of late sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein, saying that prosecutors had failed to demonstrate that
special circumstances warranted the disclosure. And like I just said
in the opening there all by design. They knew this
wasn't going to happen. And I'm certainly not some legal mind, right,
And I told you from the jump that this was
(03:59):
the whole entire point. Judge Richard Berman of the US
District Court for the Southern District of New York issued
is ruling in a fourteen page decision denying the government's
motion to unseal the documents. And of course we had
to hear right after this that the judge isn't on
the cover up. That Judge Berman is the one who
is to blame here, not the Department of Justice. You
(04:21):
want to talk about a master class in gaslighting, and
they knew that people would suck it up. You have
people out there that are willing to buy anything that's
being pitched by the administration. It's no different than the
last administration who tried to gaslight you about Joe Biden's
mental acuity. We all knew that dude was cooked, but no,
(04:41):
they had to run their narrative, had to run their bullshit.
And it's the same thing that's happening right now with
this whole entire grand jury document situation. The DOJ knows
just how hard it is to get grand jury documents,
and that's why they asked for them. Notice they didn't
say anything about the NPA right or anything else they
have in their possession. Berman wrote that the grand jury
(05:03):
material in question includes the testimony of just a single witness,
an FBI agent who had no direct knowledge of the
facts of the case and whose testimony was mostly hearsay.
The documents the government was seeking to unseal included roughly
seventy pages of transcripts of the agent's two presentations to
the grand jury, a PowerPoint exhibit, and a call log.
(05:25):
Berman noted that the Justice Department files on Epstein Dwarf,
those stemming from the grand jury proceeding before grand jury's
are typically kept secret, a significant and compelling reason to
reject The government's position in this litigation is that the
government has already undertaken a comprehensive investigation into Epstein's case
and not surprisingly, has assembled the trove of Epstein documents, interviews,
(05:50):
and exhibits, and the government committed that it would share
its Epstein investigation materials with the public. Berman wrote, but
somehow it's the judge's fault. Somehow, Now it's Judge Berman's
fault that the Trump administration doesn't want to be transparent.
You see, the Trump administration knew that people would bite
and that this narrative would gain some traction with their base.
(06:12):
But I don't think it's their base that they have
to worry about at this point. I think it's all
those independents that they folded into their coalition to help
them win the White House. Those are the people they
need to worry about. And I have bad news for you.
If Alex Jones is on the fence about you, you
know you're in big trouble. The government's the logical party
to make comprehensive disclosure to the public of the Epstein files.
(06:36):
By comparison, the instant grand jury motion appears to be
a diversion from the breadth and scope of the Epstein
files in the government's possession, Berman wrote, quoting a decision
by another New York judge who denied the government's move
to one sealed material in the case of Glenn Maxwell,
Epstein's co conspirator, who is serving a twenty year sentence
on sex trafficking charges. The information contained in the Epstein
(07:00):
grand jury transcripts Pels in comparison to the Epstein investigation
information and materials in the hands of the Department of Justice,
he concluded, Well, yeah, no shit. Grand jury documentation is
sparse at best. That's what they bring to get the indictment.
And they don't even bring all the information they have.
They just bring enough. So if you think the grand
(07:22):
jury documents tell the whole story, you have no idea
what you're talking about. And anybody trying to tell you
that these grand jury documents are some kind of key
to what's going on here, they're lying to you. The
information contained in the Epstein Grand Jury transcripts Pels in
comparison to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the
hands of the Department of Justice, he concluded. Berman wrote
(07:45):
that the grand jury material is merely a hearsay snippet
of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged conduct. He cited possible threats to
victim safety and privacy as one of the factors that
weighed in favor of not releasing the documents. The Justice
Department declined to comment on Burman's ruling. Of course they did.
They don't need to comment. They'll have all of their
(08:07):
allies at social media and talk about how this decision
is nothing more than part of the cover up, and
then they'll point to this and say, see, the administration
wants transparency, but it's the courts and everybody else who
is standing in the way. And look, there's certainly some
truth to the courts having their own issues when it
comes to Jeffrey Epstein. I'm talking specifically about the grand
(08:29):
jury documents. Anybody who knows anything new that these things
weren't going to be released. The family of Virginia Roberts,
one of Epstein's most well known accusers who died by
suicide earlier this year, said in a statement, we applaud
Judge Richard Berman's decision not to release the grand jury
testimony in the Glenn Maxwell case. We wholeheartedly agree with
(08:50):
his assessment that the Department of Justice is creating a
diversion with its actions regarding the grand jury motion, which
distracts from the vasqu go of the Epstein files in
the government's possession. Well, yeah, that's exactly what it comes
down to. And that's exactly what we've been saying from
the jump. And when I say we, not just me,
I'm talking about anybody with a brain in their head.
(09:13):
You don't have to be fucking Johnny Cochran to realize
that the fix is in. We recognize the critical importance
of protecting survivors. It's essential that we redact any information
that could jeopardize their safety or a privacy. Their well
being must always be our priority, the family said. At
the same time, we demand accountability for all individuals implicated
(09:35):
in these heinous acts. Those responsible must be held to
the fullest extent of the law. We will not accept
anything less than justice for Virginia and all the survivors.
In July, the Justice Department asked judges overseeing the Maxwell
and Epstein cases to release the grand jury material that
formed the basis for the federal charges against them, a
(09:56):
move that came amid uproar over the Department's review of
the soul called Epstein files and decision not to release
additional documents in the government's possession. You know, after they
told us they were going to, after they gave us
the whole rundown about how transparent they're going to be,
We're going to have day one releases the whole thing,
only for them to spit directly on our face. But
(10:18):
go ahead, go off about the judges and about how
the fix is in. Epstein was investigated by federal authorities
in Florida in the two thousands, a probe that ended
in a non prosecution agreement and a guilty plea on
state prostitution charges. He was arrested again on federal sex
trafficking charges in twenty nineteen and died in a Manhattan
(10:39):
jail weeks later. Several investigations determined he died by suicide. Well,
considering the track record when it comes to truth and
Jeffrey Epstein and what's happened here, does anyone believe that narrative?
There has been increasing pressure on the Trump administration from
Democrats and many Republicans to disclose more information about the
(11:00):
Epstein case. The Justice Department issued findings of a review
of the Epstein investigation in July, saying it had found
no evidence of a client list or indication that Epstein
blackmailed prominent figures, an announcement that spurred more questions from skeptics. Well, yeah,
with everything that we know, how can you get up
(11:22):
there with a straight face and try and pitch that
bullshit to us? I mean, that is a bold move.
That's like Baghdad Bob standing on that building and telling
the Iraqis that there was no Americans in Baghdad. Republicans
in Congress have pushed for more transparency since the Justice
Department's review. The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to
(11:44):
the Department for documents related to Epstein earlier this month.
The committee said Tuesday that it expects to receive documents
later this week and intends to begin releasing them pending
a review to redact victim's information. Shouldn't that victim's information
be redacted already by the time they get it, is
that what the FBI supposedly was doing. So what they
mean by review is to make sure that none of
(12:06):
their friends are involved, right, and then they'll release it
to us. You want transparency, you want us to believe you,
you want us to believe in what's going on. Here's
an idea. How about you have these meetings, these depositions
in public. That way we can see for ourselves what
everybody has to say, what everybody looks like while they're
(12:26):
saying it, and the kind of questions that are being
asked from the members of the committee. But no, we
can't even have that. So once again comes down to
trust us. Bro And I don't know about you, but
the days of trusting the institutions in this country, for
me anyway, are long over, and considering the way things
(12:46):
are going, I doubt that trust is ever coming back.
All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one.
All of the information that goes with this episode can
be found in the description box.
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